"If you want to be
immortal, stick a
wax mould all around
your bones and take your
temperature when the moon
is full."
Fool’s Journey: A new collection of tarot poetry & art
Category: Self-care
Altar | Centring desire, full moon in Taurus
A friend asked me recently,
"What would it look like, to centre desire?"
I couldn't answer.
Tarot as a Path of Healing | Questioning
Alexis guides us to explore the ways tarot offers us a tool for healing, and shares a simple candle ritual to bring forth your personal answers.
See the Cripple Dance | Leaving things unfinished while wandering & recalibrating with the Seven of Pentacles
Facing Demons: A tarot spread series for deep psychological work
"Beginning deep psychological or shadow work is not without its perils. The Facing Demons tarot spread series offers you access to clear messages that will light your way through the labyrinth of the unconscious."
MOONWORK: somatic practice for queers
"MOONWORK is a practice of making home in self, others, and the present moment, as perfect-for-now experiences that include past & future." Hannah Harris-Sutro introduces her new online class.
Tarot as a Path of Healing | Embodying (part 2)
Alexis shares a full-body tarot spread: "There is something powerful and vulnerable lying down and having cards placed on you while one or many folks begin to speak about what they see about you and your story via the cards."
See the Cripple Dance | Post-surgery & post-break-up introspection with the Page of Cups
On reading poetry, refusing to hide from pain, and blossoming in the mud during Chiron Retrograde.
Ritual & Honey | Herbal Allies for Grief
If we pay attention we realize we’ve been grieving a lot longer than we’ve been awake. The grieving never stops, never ceases, only its form and expression changes.
Loss is change. Grief is change. God is change.
The Seven of Pentacles is an invitation to integrate
It's what late summer light is for, I believe. Lammas. Mugwort cigarettes. And meadowsweet incense, rose tea, taking time to knead bread, to make a fire... to sit in whatever silence we can find and claim for ourselves, and let it all settle in.
Heal & Harm | What to do when you can’t read tarot for yourself
"I am scared of interpreting the cards in a way that supports only what I want to hear." Sabrina explores some alternatives to self-reading.
Tarot as a Path of Healing | Embodying (part 1)
If it’s all just spiritual work and of the soul, why bring our bodies into it? Because all of us have bodies. Because we filter the wisdom received from tarot through our bodies and have lived or will live the stories cast on the reading table.
See the Cripple Dance | Six of Swords: Celebrating seven years of sobriety
Leaving behind substances, bad habits, & stagnation without fear; the Six of Swords is growing up, maturing, moving on.
Heal & Harm | Mothering Myself as the Queen of Swords
To cut off abusers is to be the Queen of Swords. To take care of ourselves by cutting off communication, and not necessarily dramatically. Sometimes there is nothing more to be said, and the most powerful statement is said with silence.
The Numinous Tarot: The love we need to grow
The Numinous Tarot places hope at the heart of the revolution. "We may have to build this place ourselves, but we are worth the effort, the space, and the care of doing so." - Noel Heimpel
Tarot as a Path of Healing | Befriending
Befriending cards is a great exercise to figure out where you’re at in your life and to begin naming what you want more of, as well as what needs releasing.
Heal & Harm | Morning coffee and little rituals
Each small ritual is part of a bigger picture, a cumulative relationship with ourselves and with our spirit and our environment.
Tarot as a path of healing | Journaling
Through my journaling, it felt like I went from just listening to the tarot to conversing with it and, in turn, conversing with myself.
May Sunday Spread | Sustainable Resourcing
It's productivity season and our healing projects can be just as alluring as any other. This month we utilize tarot to guard and manage our sacred energy, even from ourselves.
Coven Verse | Silent Retreat
Heal & Harm | The ethics of retreat, part 2
People retreat to ‘get away from it all’ and I think it is worth magnifying this ‘it’ – what exactly is being escaped?
Tarot as a path of healing | Warding
Heal & Harm | The ethics of retreat, part 1
Are you romanticizing the not-home? What stops you from retreating at-home, or at least in your city or neighbourhood? What might it mean to retreat in daily life?
April Sunday Spread | The space between
Heal & Harm | Getting permission to die
Death shows us what happens when you come out the other side – pain, hope, transformation.
Tarot as a path of healing | Grounding & Centering
Learning to ground + center isn’t just to be able to react better to stress, but to allow us to focus the mind on what we want to focus on.
Reclaiming the Empress
As I work though my own process of reclaiming my own Empressness, I turned to three queer tarot decks for new perspectives.
Heal & Harm | Finding what needs mourning
Sometimes what we need to mourn – really truly – is not an ancestor who is deceased, not a fleshy body made bone, but a version or vision of ourselves, a fantasy we held about ourselves or our future.
March Sunday Spread | Crystal Unicorn Tarot deck review
This month on the Sunday Spread: we imagine, sparkle, and manifest with a review of Pamela Chen's new Crystal Unicorn Tarot!
